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Embarking on fish farming to cut back hunger in Casamance.

A view of the Middelgruden offshore wind farm. The wind farm was developed off the Danish coast in 2000 and consists of 20 turbines.

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has been boarded by Dutch security agents in the port of Rotterdam, who broke down the door of the communications room and towed the ship to shore after it intercepted a Russian tanker carrying Arctic oil to Europe.

A group of 80 activists supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior are attempting to stop the oil tanker Mikhail Ulyanov from delivering the first oil from a controversial drilling platform in the Russian Arctic. They are calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and an urgent switch to new sources of energy.

Is mass forest restoration a real possibility for Indonesia?

Ogasawara Islands, Japan

A strong storm system moving across the central and southern United States has spawned several tornadoes, killing at least 12 people in an outbreak forecasters say could continue Monday as the storms continue traveling to the east.

A coalition of Fairbanks residents and community groups took legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), citing failures to protect clean air and public health in Alaska by not enforcing critical components of the Clean Air Act.

Weather forecasts are warning that as many as 100 tornadoes could occur across multiple states in the central U.S. over the next few days. Save the Children urges families to take precautions now and to include children in the process.